Choc price increase !!!

[TheOtherHalf]

Im sure I heard on the news this morning that the price of chocolate is set to soar as the cocoa beans price has risen so much.
I really have to give it up if it gets too expensive. What a blow for us chocoholics

[ummmm]

I rarely eat chocolate. Maybe a square here and there...so I'm not worried.

[TheOtherHalf]

I dont eat as much as I used to (despite my overweight av) but I do like nice chocs rather than cheap ones. If Im going to eat them at all, I want to savour them slowly. Those you mentioned Eddie, look fantastic. Are they like the Thorntons ones ?

[RATTER15]

I gotta keep eating it to maintain my fine figure!! life's a bitch!!

[lumination]

nooooooooooo this cant happen! my bf promised he would make a chocolate bath so i could bath in it! how will me dreams come true?!

[piggynose]

you´re wasting yr time eddie51, most people are happy eating choc flavoured chocolate, with around 12% cocoa butter.
i´m with you, i remember some time ago the government were going to do something about it, regards labelling, eg cadburys were supposed to call their products choc flavoured

[wolf63]

I like Hotel Chocolat but I love Galaxy.

[slinkycat]

Has to be 70% cocoa or more, but I do like the odd toffee crisp!

[Buenchico]

Some boring statistics for you:

The London futures market was trading cocoa at an average price of £2079.33 per tonne this week

One year ago the price was £1831.33 per tonne.

That's an increase of around 13.5% which, while it's significant, shouldn't put chocolate outside of the reach of most people.

The prices you can really expect to soar are those of bread and cakes. Wheat crops around the world have been badly affected by a series of natural disasters, together with the increasing use of land for bio-fuel production, at the same time as demand from China for wheat has risen sharply. Expect to see an ordinary sliced loaf costing very close to £2 (or possibly quite a bit more) fairly soon.